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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome on in. We welcome you one and
- 0:14Speaker 1: all to three guys before the game. This is episode
- 0:16Speaker 1: number six hundred and seventy two. Busy Time, the crossover
- 0:22Speaker 1: between football and basketball. This is a preview of West
- 0:25Speaker 1: Virginia and Colorado and a recap of West Virginia's first
- 0:30Speaker 1: two basketball games of the season. The Mount Saint Mary's
- 0:35Speaker 1: Mountaineers and the Camels of Campbell. We'll get into both
- 0:40Speaker 1: of those textual healing as well. Tony and Brad are here.
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- 2:10Speaker 1: this thing special. Thanks to producer Jake for coming in
- 2:14Speaker 1: here early Friday morning. That is just sometimes, I mean,
- 2:17Speaker 1: this show is it's kind of like it's an amoeba
- 2:20Speaker 1: free flow. It just flows. You don't know when you're
- 2:22Speaker 1: gonna come in. But we had the basketball game last night.
- 2:25Speaker 1: West Virginia goes to two and zero on the season.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Obviously we've got football, so it's happening and it's happening
- 2:33Speaker 1: really fast on a couple of fronts. Number one, no
- 2:37Speaker 1: one normally uses the baby finger to go number one.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I haven't seen that the index, but I just went
- 2:42Speaker 1: for summery. I just went number one. Looks really weird too.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Number one. What's what's wild is how fast football has gone. Right,
- 2:53Speaker 1: We're down to three games, and then how quick basketball
- 2:56Speaker 1: is coming. We'll have played three games by this coming sun,
- 3:00Speaker 1: West Virginia will have three in the back.
- 3:02Speaker 2: It's a good thing we're doing the recap now because
- 3:03Speaker 2: the big twelve tournaments next week. I think we're going
- 3:06Speaker 2: so fast in basketball. Yeah, I do like this. It
- 3:08Speaker 2: is it is odd that you're out of the gate
- 3:10Speaker 2: here with so many games, and some of it's that,
- 3:12Speaker 2: you know, Chance Moore has to sit those five games out,
- 3:15Speaker 2: so you were trying to get as many in as
- 3:16Speaker 2: you could early to bring him back even more quickly.
- 3:19Speaker 2: But I kind of like this the play scout the
- 3:22Speaker 2: next team, get right back out there and play and
- 3:24Speaker 2: kind of get some of this flow for a team
- 3:26Speaker 2: that needs to still find itself and learn how to
- 3:29Speaker 2: play together. I like this, get out there and play games.
- 3:31Speaker 2: You've had a ton of practice go play some games
- 3:33Speaker 2: and they're able to do that here in week one.
- 3:35Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. But it was super
- 3:38Speaker 1: weird last night when the two teams were warming up
- 3:41Speaker 1: and we're getting ready to do this thing, and like
- 3:44Speaker 1: it was literally just forty eight hours before that we
- 3:46Speaker 1: were sitting there for the Mount Saint Mary's game, and
- 3:49Speaker 1: it did feel like postseason basketball, where you just like,
- 3:52Speaker 1: come on back out, we're gonna play another game, gonna
- 3:54Speaker 1: come play. It'll probably feel like that Sunday again, like
- 3:57Speaker 1: we were just we were just here. But to your point,
- 4:00Speaker 1: all new players, new coaching staff, this is the best
- 4:04Speaker 1: thing that they could be going through right now. And
- 4:07Speaker 1: as you said, the clock is winding down, go faster,
- 4:11Speaker 1: go faster on chance Moore's return to the lineup and
- 4:15Speaker 1: then eventually Jackson fields and we'll get into it. But
- 4:19Speaker 1: obviously this team needs some guys they're going to go
- 4:22Speaker 1: put their face on the rim and get rebounds, and
- 4:24Speaker 1: those are two guys sitting down right now that will.
- 4:26Speaker 2: That's part of it. Credit West Virginia for finding a
- 4:28Speaker 2: way to win its first two games, and we'll break
- 4:30Speaker 2: some of these numbers down. So you're off to where
- 4:32Speaker 2: you needed to be two and zero, but I don't
- 4:35Speaker 2: underestimate what that means to be missing two pieces of
- 4:39Speaker 2: your rotation that are going to be pretty important. One
- 4:41Speaker 2: in Jackson Field's that allows you another big to come
- 4:44Speaker 2: in along the front line. And then two. I think
- 4:46Speaker 2: he made a great point there on chance More. He's
- 4:48Speaker 2: really the one guy on this team that when he
- 4:51Speaker 2: decides to put the ball down and go to the rim,
- 4:54Speaker 2: is it's not a well I think I might take
- 4:56Speaker 2: it in and go for a lay up here. It
- 4:57Speaker 2: is I am getting to the front of the rim
- 4:59Speaker 2: and you better stop me. So he'll add a nice
- 5:02Speaker 2: element back into this as well. So keep playing. It
- 5:04Speaker 2: gets DJ Thomas some excellent early minutes here, and then
- 5:08Speaker 2: a couple more games and both of those guys will
- 5:09Speaker 2: be back in the lineup.
- 5:10Speaker 1: All right, which way are we doing this? Are we
- 5:11Speaker 1: gonna go football first?
- 5:13Speaker 2: We can? Yeah, we can do football first.
- 5:15Speaker 1: We're having a pre production meeting right now. You want
- 5:18Speaker 1: to go football.
- 5:18Speaker 2: First, Let's go football first.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Well, football is the next thing. It'll be coming up.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Good point first.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Also, w the wvu's women's basketball team in action this
- 5:29Speaker 1: evening as they take on Kent State at the Hope
- 5:33Speaker 1: Coliseum and Mark Kellogg's team will look to go to
- 5:36Speaker 1: two and zero on the Young Seas, off.
- 5:37Speaker 2: To a dominating start in game one for them, they
- 5:39Speaker 2: look to have another good year. I think he's got
- 5:42Speaker 2: a good team reloaded thereafter losing JJ Quinnery, but a
- 5:45Speaker 2: lot of pieces back, you know, Mark Kello.
- 5:47Speaker 1: And the soccers, right, we got the soccers going as well.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Women are not going to have to wait to the
- 5:53Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, but Dan Stratford and the men have the
- 5:58Speaker 1: conference tournament coming up here as well. Like just super busy.
- 6:01Speaker 2: That's Sunday.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Also Sunday is the same exact same start time. Figure
- 6:05Speaker 1: that one out three o'clock. So we'll get into that.
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- 6:58Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, all right, let's I guess we're gonna do
- 7:00Speaker 1: spreads on stats this quickly. I mean, Kirtswill's not here
- 7:03Speaker 1: for obvious observations, so might as.
- 7:05Speaker 2: Well just go like, let's just jump in because this
- 7:07Speaker 2: will be a meandering spreads on stats. We we'll just
- 7:11Speaker 2: kind of talk about the game, mixed some numbers in there.
- 7:13Speaker 2: I'm not going to just straight give you numbers today.
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- 8:17Speaker 1: This is to me just at face value, before we
- 8:20Speaker 1: look into before we look into it as wild camera angle.
- 8:24Speaker 1: That's wild camerangle right there.
- 8:25Speaker 2: And that's a good one. Yeah, that's a new one.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. I'm intrigued by the matchup,
- 8:35Speaker 1: and by this I mean I don't know what Colorado
- 8:40Speaker 1: is going to be on the field, Like, of all
- 8:44Speaker 1: the games that you get ready for during the course
- 8:47Speaker 1: of a season, it is oftentimes it's extremely rare, to
- 8:51Speaker 1: say the least, that you have a team that's coming
- 8:54Speaker 1: in that has just allowed back to back fifty point
- 8:58Speaker 1: games against them while scoring a total of twenty four
- 9:02Speaker 1: in their last two games. So they're averaging twelve and
- 9:05Speaker 1: giving up over fifty one two. Internally, they have, you know,
- 9:15Speaker 1: not that you should ever ask, but apparently demoted both
- 9:19Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, Pat Shermer and their defensive corner. I'm sorry,
- 9:24Speaker 1: their offensive corner who's Pat Trimmer, former longtime NFL guy,
- 9:27Speaker 1: and then their defensive coordinator as well, but the Dion Sanders.
- 9:32Speaker 1: He became quite ruffled when that was brought up at
- 9:35Speaker 1: his press together. It's just like, you know, he just
- 9:38Speaker 1: went into one of his rants. But like, if you're
- 9:41Speaker 1: demoting two coordinators and they're staying in the program while
- 9:46Speaker 1: the season's happening, I give you a little bit of
- 9:48Speaker 1: a hunch. Probably not a real good work environment. Probably not.
- 9:53Speaker 2: And by the way, he's done this before, yeah did
- 9:56Speaker 2: it last year. Took play calling duties away, put Shermer
- 9:59Speaker 2: in to do that. So not unusual. There.
- 10:02Speaker 1: Yeah, so you have that Hu Stroam are feeling pretty
- 10:05Speaker 1: good right now.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Probably not, Probably doesn't love that now. Probably been around
- 10:08Speaker 2: a long time, he's seen a lot of things.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Yeah, probably doesn't like that right now. You know what
- 10:11Speaker 1: he's doing. He's going like, I'm just gonna take my check,
- 10:14Speaker 1: gonna take my check to this thing. So and then
- 10:15Speaker 1: I'm getting the heck out of here. That's what he's doing. Meanwhile,
- 10:19Speaker 1: so what's that do? Like? Where are these guys plus?
- 10:23Speaker 1: The long flight?
- 10:24Speaker 2: And they came yesterday early start time for them.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Yeah, they came yesterday. They're gonna work o on Pittsburgh
- 10:29Speaker 1: Friday today and then come down day of the game,
- 10:33Speaker 1: come down from Pittsburgh our plus as you all know.
- 10:37Speaker 1: So for all of those reasons, I'm going like, that
- 10:41Speaker 1: doesn't look real. That doesn't look real conducive to coming
- 10:43Speaker 1: out here and I'm playing, so we'll see.
- 10:47Speaker 2: So agree with you on all that. The scores of
- 10:50Speaker 2: the last two games for Colorado one five to twenty four. Yeah,
- 10:54Speaker 2: Now here's what's interesting about this. West Virginia almost asked
- 10:58Speaker 2: the same questions we asked last week coming off that
- 11:00Speaker 2: TCU performance where things looked better, but you didn't get
- 11:03Speaker 2: it all the way to the finish line, but you
- 11:04Speaker 2: had some life and maybe some momentum. You go into Houston,
- 11:07Speaker 2: you come out, you punch them right in the face
- 11:08Speaker 2: early and then hang on with some big plays and
- 11:10Speaker 2: get a massive road win over a ranked team. Now
- 11:14Speaker 2: we ask it again, can you stack another one on
- 11:16Speaker 2: top of that? And so everything you just outline there
- 11:18Speaker 2: about Colorado makes you feel situationally pretty good if you're
- 11:22Speaker 2: West Virginia, the one with Laria where you go, all right,
- 11:24Speaker 2: just hold on here, just like look over your shoulder
- 11:27Speaker 2: a little bit. Here is that you're off your biggest
- 11:30Speaker 2: win under Rich Rodriguez version two point zero in the
- 11:33Speaker 2: last month and a half. So you can't come back
- 11:36Speaker 2: in here resting on your laurels feeling too good about yourself.
- 11:40Speaker 2: You have got to buckle down and screw it down.
- 11:43Speaker 2: So letdown spot. Yeah, there's the definition of a letdown
- 11:46Speaker 2: spot here. I do like that the crowd is supposed
- 11:49Speaker 2: to be really good and the weather looks like it's
- 11:51Speaker 2: going to be really nice, so that should help insulate
- 11:54Speaker 2: you a little bit with some crowd noise there, and
- 11:56Speaker 2: that should bring some energy. But you always worry about
- 11:59Speaker 2: teams like this with Colorado, don't you everything, You just
- 12:02Speaker 2: outline screams they're done, just pack it in. That thing's
- 12:06Speaker 2: over for the season. Correct, But that's where you start
- 12:08Speaker 2: to get a little nervous. And West Virginia is not
- 12:11Speaker 2: at a point in its evolution under Rich version two
- 12:13Speaker 2: point zero that it can just walk in and say,
- 12:15Speaker 2: all right, we got this, we're good, we'll handle this.
- 12:17Speaker 2: You got to go out and still play. So that's
- 12:19Speaker 2: number one. Number two the other wild card Colorado is
- 12:22Speaker 2: giving you as the quarterback situation, they're making a change,
- 12:26Speaker 2: going to the talented, highly talented freshman Juju Lewis who
- 12:30Speaker 2: makes his first start, and it's not too dissimilar from
- 12:34Speaker 2: Scottie Fox. Right, this is too true. Freshman starting at
- 12:37Speaker 2: the Power four level in a Big twelve Conference game.
- 12:39Speaker 2: I didn't look it up, but that has to be
- 12:41Speaker 2: an unusual situation. Juju hasn't played a whole lot. Got
- 12:45Speaker 2: his most run last week against Arizona, but the game
- 12:48Speaker 2: was already decided. So what exactly do you get from Colorado?
- 12:52Speaker 2: Chances are they're not going to change the offense a
- 12:54Speaker 2: whole bunch, even if they have a new play caller.
- 12:56Speaker 2: And the new quarterback. But a little bit of a
- 12:58Speaker 2: wildcard going in there with a talented five star quarterback.
- 13:01Speaker 2: But here's the other thing, Tony, he hasn't seen a
- 13:03Speaker 2: Zach Alley defense yet. And Zach talked about this week
- 13:07Speaker 2: about he thought they confused Wegman at Houston a little
- 13:09Speaker 2: bit with some of their pre snap motion and shifting.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Can you do that again with Juju Lewis? So that's
- 13:15Speaker 2: going to be something to watch as well.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Totally agree Julian Lewis, As Brad said, he put up
- 13:21Speaker 1: some stupidly good numbers in high school. Listen to this.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Eleven thousand passing yards in three years of high school football. Now,
- 13:32Speaker 1: if that doesn't take your breath, how about this one
- 13:35Speaker 1: hundred and forty four touchdowns in three years. Do the
- 13:40Speaker 1: math on that.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Almost fifty a year.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Almost fifty touchdown passes a year, thirty nine and four
- 13:45Speaker 1: as a high school starter. Just the second player to
- 13:48Speaker 1: become the Gatorade Player of the Year in Georgia the
- 13:51Speaker 1: other two times. The other was Trevor Lawrence and flipped
- 13:57Speaker 1: his commitment on the Pat Matkaffee Show to go to
- 14:02Speaker 1: Colorado was going to USC flipped it on patch show
- 14:06Speaker 1: always a West Virginia connection, and last week he went
- 14:10Speaker 1: nine to seventeen for one hundred and twenty one yards, touchdown,
- 14:14Speaker 1: no picks in their loss to Arizona, round the ball
- 14:19Speaker 1: once for fifteen yards. So that's the story there, and
- 14:25Speaker 1: it is really wild. You got two true freshmen.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Some similar numbers team wise overall, fourteenth and fifteenth in
- 14:33Speaker 2: the league in scoring average and defensive scoring average. Look
- 14:36Speaker 2: how close these are. West Virginia averages twenty three point
- 14:39Speaker 2: two points per game, Colorado twenty two defensively buffs giving
- 14:44Speaker 2: up thirty point one points per game, West Virginia thirty
- 14:47Speaker 2: point four, So evenly matched from that standpoint. Let's get
- 14:51Speaker 2: into some keys here and talk these through. I think
- 14:53Speaker 2: number one or one of these aren't necessarily in order,
- 14:56Speaker 2: but one of the big ones here. Who wins I'm
- 14:59Speaker 2: gonna get I'm going to niche you here? You ready?
- 15:01Speaker 2: Who wins the rush explosive matchup? Colorado is ninety fourth
- 15:07Speaker 2: percentile nationally when it comes to rush explosive percentage. You're
- 15:12Speaker 2: going against a West Virginia defense that's eighteenth nationally in
- 15:16Speaker 2: opponent rush success. If West Virginia limits their big rush plays,
- 15:21Speaker 2: and you put it all on the freshman quarterback. I
- 15:24Speaker 2: think that's where you want to be. If Juju Lewis
- 15:26Speaker 2: goes out and throws for three point fifty and four
- 15:27Speaker 2: touchdowns on you tip your cap and say congratulations. Limit
- 15:31Speaker 2: those rush plays, be good in the run game, which
- 15:33Speaker 2: West Virginia has been most of this season. And I
- 15:36Speaker 2: like West Virginia's chances right there defensively against Colorado's offense.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Flip it around. We know West Virginia wants to run it,
- 15:43Speaker 2: and the offense looks its best when you're having success
- 15:45Speaker 2: on the ground. It opens up that pass game for Scotti,
- 15:48Speaker 2: Fox and those receivers. Colorado's defense is dead last in
- 15:52Speaker 2: the Big Twelve in rush yards allowed at two sixteen.
- 15:55Speaker 2: This feels like one of those limit their big plays,
- 15:59Speaker 2: make them try and ground you on the ground, you
- 16:01Speaker 2: on the ground, so to speak. And then West Virginia
- 16:03Speaker 2: look for that two hundred yard rushing number. Can you
- 16:06Speaker 2: get to that which will give you some balance? Which
- 16:08Speaker 2: you like West Virginia's offense. Who makes big plays on
- 16:11Speaker 2: the ground in this game? Mm hmm that's number one.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Again off the side to this, as I
- 16:19Speaker 1: go back to my original point that this heart of
- 16:23Speaker 1: coaching is the invaluable magic part of coaching. When it's
- 16:29Speaker 1: the month of November and both of these teams with
- 16:33Speaker 1: extremely rare opportunities to go to a postseason bowl right now,
- 16:39Speaker 1: very very limited chance that that could happen for them.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Big things would have to happen. But which coach can
- 16:46Speaker 1: get their guys to go? And the way that Rich's
- 16:50Speaker 1: needle works is that coming off of that Houston performance,
- 16:55Speaker 1: like he's the last guy to pat his guys on
- 16:58Speaker 1: the back and say, hey, we've arrived. It's the other way, right,
- 17:04Speaker 1: It's the other way for Rich, he goes the opposite way.
- 17:07Speaker 1: He I would imagine that most of the kids on
- 17:10Speaker 1: the Mountain Neer team right now, after practicing this week,
- 17:13Speaker 1: think they lost last week at Houston because he just
- 17:18Speaker 1: will not be He will. He's relentless in his demand
- 17:22Speaker 1: to make them get to that next level. So to me,
- 17:25Speaker 1: one of the biggest things is how do they come
- 17:28Speaker 1: out and play as much as you know, we can
- 17:32Speaker 1: take a look at the numbers, but like who's ready
- 17:34Speaker 1: to block, who's ready to tackle? And that's that's the
- 17:38Speaker 1: magic of him. So that's what we'll see.
- 17:41Speaker 2: How about the Colorado pass offense versus West Virginia's pass rush.
- 17:45Speaker 2: So we just touched on that a little bit. What
- 17:47Speaker 2: does Juju Lewis at quarterback mean for them both from
- 17:49Speaker 2: a defensive West Virginia's defense confusing him and just his
- 17:53Speaker 2: ability to execute in a tough road environment. We saw
- 17:56Speaker 2: this with Fox having to do this. You're starting in
- 17:58Speaker 2: a really difficult place. The place is going to be
- 18:01Speaker 2: hopping' and you're coming in for your first start. Really
- 18:03Speaker 2: talented kid. That's a tough spot to put anybody in,
- 18:07Speaker 2: and you're going against a Colorado pass offense that per
- 18:11Speaker 2: PFF has the thirteenth grade in the Big twelve, so
- 18:14Speaker 2: thirteen out of sixteen. This has not been an effective
- 18:16Speaker 2: pass offense, which is part of why you've seen Colorado
- 18:19Speaker 2: flip around to quarterbacks. They're trying to find a spark somewhere.
- 18:22Speaker 2: They're getting a West Virginia defense. It's eighth in the
- 18:25Speaker 2: league in pass rush, so pretty decent pass rush for
- 18:28Speaker 2: West Virginia. Coverage unit fourteenth for WU. Now, we saw
- 18:33Speaker 2: against TCU and I thought we saw against Houston really
- 18:36Speaker 2: good back end coverage there, and that coverage against Houston
- 18:39Speaker 2: would have been even better if the officials had known
- 18:41Speaker 2: what they were doing in that game. Unfortunately must not
- 18:43Speaker 2: officiated many games didn't know what they're doing back there.
- 18:45Speaker 2: So can West Virginia here we are again get pressure
- 18:49Speaker 2: against Colorado's front and make Juju Lewis even more uncomfortable
- 18:53Speaker 2: than he's already going to be in his first start.
- 18:56Speaker 2: An interesting stat on their previous starter, Cadence Salter, he
- 19:00Speaker 2: was responsible for thirty six percent of the pressures that
- 19:04Speaker 2: got to the Colorado quarterback. They put that thirty six
- 19:08Speaker 2: percent of them back on him, the quarterback holding it
- 19:10Speaker 2: too long, not getting rid of it. So it may
- 19:13Speaker 2: help this pass offense to have him out of there.
- 19:16Speaker 2: What does Juju Lewis look.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Like back there?
- 19:18Speaker 2: Can you get to him and affect his game, especially early?
- 19:21Speaker 2: I've thought we've seen that in the last couple of weeks,
- 19:24Speaker 2: and we certainly saw it against Pitt with the big
- 19:26Speaker 2: win over the Panthers. When West Virginia gets to the
- 19:28Speaker 2: quarterback early and can deliver a couple of hits, we've
- 19:32Speaker 2: seen that rattle that other quarterback and that has paid
- 19:34Speaker 2: dividends in the terms of interceptions or turnovers late. So
- 19:38Speaker 2: I would watch that early is West Virginia getting home
- 19:41Speaker 2: and making Juju Lewis uncomfortable early, even if it's not
- 19:45Speaker 2: turning into sacks.
- 19:45Speaker 1: And if they do do that, it would be the
- 19:47Speaker 1: third straight week because they did rattle Josh Hoover. He
- 19:51Speaker 1: did not have a typical Josh Hoover game, couldn't get
- 19:54Speaker 1: a downfield right. And Connor Wigman same deal. He was
- 19:57Speaker 1: rattled throughout the course of the game. Can you put
- 20:00Speaker 1: another one of those together and cause a lot of
- 20:02Speaker 1: confusion back there? Will Jimori Robinson once again make plays
- 20:07Speaker 1: that are significant in this game? Right the clock's winding,
- 20:11Speaker 1: you got three games left. You're either gonna do it
- 20:14Speaker 1: now or you're not going to do it. But he
- 20:15Speaker 1: is a guy that's going to be a nuisance back.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Got to be a guy. I mean, you brought him
- 20:18Speaker 2: to get after the quarterback and you saw it for
- 20:21Speaker 2: the first time last week. He needs to stack another
- 20:24Speaker 2: performance and be a menace in that backfield.
- 20:26Speaker 1: How's that line the offensive line there for Colorado grade wise?
- 20:31Speaker 1: Is it like last week? We talked about Houston's left
- 20:33Speaker 1: side tackle A little bit of some issues you see
- 20:37Speaker 1: in anything there any holes that can be exploited.
- 20:41Speaker 2: They've been in pass blocking in particular. They've they've been
- 20:44Speaker 2: really good until the last two weeks. Utah ate them
- 20:47Speaker 2: up pretty significantly. But oh imagine that, right. Meanta pretty
- 20:51Speaker 2: good upfront against Arizona last week. They were at tad
- 20:54Speaker 2: below average. Before that, they had been excellent, and it
- 20:56Speaker 2: had been playing some tough teams. I always stay TCU
- 20:59Speaker 2: Bye and Houston and Georgia Tech and their pass blocking grades.
- 21:03Speaker 2: It held up pretty well. It's part of why you
- 21:05Speaker 2: saw that number for Salter on the pressure so high.
- 21:08Speaker 2: The line wasn't necessarily having the problem. It was Salter's
- 21:11Speaker 2: responsibility to get rid of the ball. So that is
- 21:13Speaker 2: something you're going to watch. This line has been pretty
- 21:16Speaker 2: decent for an offense that's struggling over all to pass
- 21:18Speaker 2: it all right, go to a key number three flip
- 21:21Speaker 2: that around. Can West Virginia have success when it's throwing it?
- 21:23Speaker 2: So we already talked about the rush game against a
- 21:26Speaker 2: Colorado defense that struggled to stop the run. If you
- 21:28Speaker 2: can run, as we saw last week, it opens up
- 21:31Speaker 2: this playbook for rich Rodriguez and Scotti Fox guys. He
- 21:34Speaker 2: is growing into his role here. Not only has he
- 21:38Speaker 2: not turned it over in the last two weeks. He
- 21:40Speaker 2: has zero turnover worthy plays in the last two weeks.
- 21:44Speaker 2: That is pretty impressive for a true freshman that you
- 21:46Speaker 2: can just see. Stop me if you've heard this, The
- 21:49Speaker 2: more reps you get at something, the better you're going
- 21:51Speaker 2: to get. Is that new heard that breaking new ground?
- 21:54Speaker 1: There?
- 21:54Speaker 2: No Scotti. Fox has been really good the last couple
- 21:57Speaker 2: of weeks. So the Colorado pass defense decent pass rush
- 22:02Speaker 2: grade for them. They've been able to They've they've the
- 22:04Speaker 2: last couple of years upgraded their athletes along the defensive
- 22:07Speaker 2: line coach by Hall of Famer Warren Sap, But on
- 22:10Speaker 2: the back end they've had a little bit of trouble here.
- 22:13Speaker 2: So Colorado has no individual in the top of the
- 22:16Speaker 2: in the top twenty five of the Big Twelve in
- 22:18Speaker 2: sacks individually, and just one in the top twenty five
- 22:21Speaker 2: in TFLs So been okay, not great, But how about
- 22:25Speaker 2: this worst coverage grade in the Big Twelve. They like
- 22:29Speaker 2: to line up in May and they like to line
- 22:30Speaker 2: up and say, can you beat us? A lot of
- 22:32Speaker 2: teams have been beating them. Preston Hodge leads the Big
- 22:35Speaker 2: Twelve and passes defended but zero interceptions that usually doesn't happen.
- 22:41Speaker 2: You defend the most passes, you're probably gonna come up
- 22:43Speaker 2: with a pick, doesn't have any Carter Stoptmeyer sixteenth in
- 22:46Speaker 2: the Big Twelve and passes defended as well. DJ McKinny
- 22:49Speaker 2: twenty first. So their defensive backs have a lot of
- 22:52Speaker 2: passes defended. But what's that tell you? Teams are attacking
- 22:55Speaker 2: them on the back end. So can West Virginia do that?
- 22:58Speaker 2: Is this a Cam Vaughn day? Rodney Gallagher tight ends
- 23:02Speaker 2: across the middle? Can you have six to some success
- 23:04Speaker 2: throwing it? And I think it just starts with that
- 23:07Speaker 2: first stat I read. If Scotty Fox is not going
- 23:09Speaker 2: to put you in harm's way with turnover worthy plays,
- 23:11Speaker 2: this offense is probably going to click along.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Also, they're leading tackler who's their safety Toffeek Buyard has
- 23:19Speaker 1: to sit out the opening half of Saturday's game because
- 23:22Speaker 1: of a targeting penalty going back to last week's game.
- 23:26Speaker 1: The player that they have behind him is named John Slaughter,
- 23:30Speaker 1: who's only been involved with eight tackles the entire season.
- 23:33Speaker 1: I don't know if they move someone over from a
- 23:35Speaker 1: different spot, but at this point, Buyard will not play
- 23:40Speaker 1: in the opening half.
- 23:41Speaker 2: I'll give you one other number and one thing to watch.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Let's go to third down. Colorado ninety sixth in the country,
- 23:47Speaker 2: so not good on third down average distance to go
- 23:51Speaker 2: It's seven point three yards. Okay, West Virginia is forcing
- 23:55Speaker 2: teams into seven and a half yards per third down,
- 23:58Speaker 2: almost dead on. That puts West Virginia's defense thirty first
- 24:01Speaker 2: in that category. So can this be another key if
- 24:05Speaker 2: those numbers just hold? I mean we're deep in the
- 24:07Speaker 2: season now, those are those are pretty strong numbers. Those hold.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Colorado does what it averagely averaged does on an average basis,
- 24:15Speaker 2: and West Virginia's defense does the same, and you're putting
- 24:17Speaker 2: a freshman quarterback in third and long and you can
- 24:19Speaker 2: pin your ears back. I like that situation for West
- 24:22Speaker 2: Virginia going there. They can probably get up if they're
- 24:25Speaker 2: allowed to cheer show those situations. Sure, So a lot
- 24:28Speaker 2: of numbers there, I think matchup wise from a from
- 24:30Speaker 2: a where the two teams are mentally you like West Virginia,
- 24:33Speaker 2: and I think some of those numbers show up that
- 24:35Speaker 2: what Colorado does well, West Virginia should be able to
- 24:39Speaker 2: match it. I think this does set up as a
- 24:41Speaker 2: fairly decent matchup for West Virginia and they come into
- 24:43Speaker 2: this game favored. It's been a while since West Virginia
- 24:46Speaker 2: has been favored in a game, but they are in
- 24:47Speaker 2: this one.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Big game for the program, for West Virginia's program. You
- 24:50Speaker 1: win this game and it shows that you're you're going
- 24:53Speaker 1: down the right road and that things are starting to develop.
- 24:58Speaker 1: It'll give you another shot momentum. Again, this is not
- 25:00Speaker 1: going to move the national needle. The Big Twelve doing
- 25:03Speaker 1: that by itself. Three teams in the top thirteen in
- 25:06Speaker 1: the first College Football Playoff rankings, So it's not going
- 25:08Speaker 1: to be a big national story. But internally we will
- 25:11Speaker 1: see this and go yues what you're going down the road?
- 25:14Speaker 1: Pieces are getting coming together, and that'll be significant.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Would it really would be in a game that you
- 25:20Speaker 2: feel like you can win with some momentum, stack another
- 25:23Speaker 2: game on top, and then I don't mean to push
- 25:25Speaker 2: ahead too far, but then you've got that long trip
- 25:27Speaker 2: to Arizona. I get it, but you're going against a
- 25:29Speaker 2: Sun Devil team that's without its starting quarterback. So you
- 25:32Speaker 2: go into that one and you take your swings.
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- 26:18Speaker 1: dot com. All Right, basketball, last night, West Virginia seventy three,
- 26:26Speaker 1: Campbell sixty five Mountaineers now two to oher under first
- 26:31Speaker 1: year head coach Ross Hodge. So like really intriguing and interesting.
- 26:38Speaker 1: The first two games have been you get the endgame.
- 26:44Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is if you win, right,
- 26:46Speaker 1: That's the only thing so you get the wins, and
- 26:51Speaker 1: defensively you're playing really really well. Last night you hold
- 26:56Speaker 1: Campbell to thirty five percent shooting and just fourteen percent
- 27:00Speaker 1: sent from three. So these are the things that Ross
- 27:02Speaker 1: Hodge and his staff are known for. They will grind
- 27:05Speaker 1: you down defensively. However, you know, these are games, like
- 27:11Speaker 1: we're getting toward the end of the game and it's
- 27:13Speaker 1: like it's not that blowout that you would expect this
- 27:17Speaker 1: time of the year. So questions go like, well, wait
- 27:19Speaker 1: a second, got one today? I think I don't know
- 27:22Speaker 1: if it was used or not on the text lines
- 27:24Speaker 1: like if we're if it's tight games, now, what happens
- 27:28Speaker 1: when you get into the big twelve games? It's a
- 27:32Speaker 1: fair question answer, don't know yet again for a couple
- 27:36Speaker 1: of reasons. One, they haven't played enough together. Two, not
- 27:40Speaker 1: all the pieces are there yet, so you really don't know.
- 27:44Speaker 1: So again, important to play a lot of games early.
- 27:49Speaker 1: But you're gonna get a big test next Thursday when
- 27:52Speaker 1: Pitt comes to town. And that's kind of where this
- 27:56Speaker 1: thing sits right now.
- 27:57Speaker 2: Pretty crazy how this works. And I get that question,
- 28:00Speaker 2: and it's what we do as sports fans. We want
- 28:03Speaker 2: to pick up the performance from what we just saw
- 28:05Speaker 2: and move it forward as if it's going to stay
- 28:07Speaker 2: static every night. And I think the first two games
- 28:10Speaker 2: have shown you that that's not the case. You saw
- 28:12Speaker 2: West Virginia struggle to make some threes in the first game.
- 28:16Speaker 2: What you see last night, you saw Trace and Eaglestaff
- 28:18Speaker 2: come back and be very aggressive scoring, put up double
- 28:21Speaker 2: figures and could have had a lot more than what
- 28:22Speaker 2: he did. You saw a little bit of the Honor
- 28:25Speaker 2: Huff experience Tony, especially late, and you saw how blistering
- 28:28Speaker 2: hot he can get and how he changes the face
- 28:31Speaker 2: of your offense and can change games pretty quickly, and
- 28:34Speaker 2: was invaluable down the stretch of that game. Here's the
- 28:37Speaker 2: other thing it did. I went back and looked at
- 28:40Speaker 2: last year's team because there are some similarities both in
- 28:44Speaker 2: style of play that the defense will be ahead of
- 28:46Speaker 2: the offense, and then just in the fact that you're
- 28:48Speaker 2: trying to mix in an entirely new rotation. This year's
- 28:52Speaker 2: version is going to have a like a stare stepped
- 28:54Speaker 2: approach this as we mentioned earlier, you're not only trying
- 28:57Speaker 2: to get used to this lineup, then you're gonna mix
- 28:59Speaker 2: chance more back then you're gonna mix Jackson fields back in,
- 29:02Speaker 2: so it's going to be a work in progress and
- 29:04Speaker 2: I think that'll show itself, especially on the offensive end.
- 29:07Speaker 2: But I went back last year and just thought, all right,
- 29:09Speaker 2: how did those games go last year?
- 29:11Speaker 1: Early?
- 29:12Speaker 2: I had kind of forgotten this until I saw it
- 29:14Speaker 2: and then it jogged my memory. Last year on November eighth,
- 29:18Speaker 2: West Virginia played UMass, a UMass team that came in
- 29:21Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty second in the Ken Palm ratings.
- 29:24Speaker 2: And you remember that game. That was a battle. I
- 29:26Speaker 2: mean that came right down to the end in West
- 29:28Speaker 2: Virginia had to fistfight the minute men there and walked
- 29:32Speaker 2: out with a seventy five sixty nine win. You had
- 29:34Speaker 2: to scrap. You didn't blow out the two hundred and
- 29:36Speaker 2: twenty second ranked team in the country. And that ended
- 29:38Speaker 2: up being a West Virginia team that I'll continue to
- 29:40Speaker 2: say it till I go to my grave. That was
- 29:42Speaker 2: a West Virginia team last year that made the NCAA Tournament.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Man NCAA tournament team probably could have done rings up
- 29:47Speaker 2: and done NCAA tournament because you got screwed two hundred
- 29:51Speaker 2: and twenty second U Mass team. You beat them by eight.
- 29:54Speaker 2: So you go to last night's game and you get Campbell,
- 29:56Speaker 2: who's right now one to ninety nine in Ken Palm ratings,
- 29:59Speaker 2: not too far off, and you went right down to
- 30:01Speaker 2: the wire one seventy three sixty five. And what was
- 30:03Speaker 2: a similar type of game, A fistfight type of game
- 30:07Speaker 2: that was really physical. You mentioned West Virginia's defense was excellent,
- 30:10Speaker 2: especially along the perimeter. Campbell got thirty eight percent of
- 30:13Speaker 2: its points at the free throw line, and some of
- 30:15Speaker 2: that was style of play for Campbell. They go hard
- 30:18Speaker 2: at the basket, and that was evident, especially in the
- 30:20Speaker 2: second half. And you had a crew that, while it
- 30:22Speaker 2: was inconsistent on how it called the game, Campbell got
- 30:25Speaker 2: a lot of calls in the lane and at the rim,
- 30:28Speaker 2: allowing them to get to the line. They did a
- 30:29Speaker 2: nice shot making free throw. So a heavy free throw game.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Point being game two, similar time of year, almost to
- 30:36Speaker 2: the day, similar type of games. West Virginia still went
- 30:40Speaker 2: on to have what was a really good season. So
- 30:42Speaker 2: I cautioned folks to pick up a performance and move
- 30:45Speaker 2: it forward and think that's going to be the trend
- 30:47Speaker 2: all season.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Are you saying that after that UMass game last year.
- 30:53Speaker 1: You didn't pencil down that they would go on to
- 30:55Speaker 1: beat Gonzaga and Arizona within a matter of two weeks.
- 30:58Speaker 2: Did not have that, did not have that that. So
- 31:00Speaker 2: I do think it's important as these rosters are are
- 31:04Speaker 2: just such a work in progress. You start with a
- 31:06Speaker 2: blank canvas and you're trying to assemble it. You're gonna
- 31:08Speaker 2: see some performances, both individually and team wise. Sometimes you
- 31:13Speaker 2: get really fired up and excited about it. Other times
- 31:15Speaker 2: you're gonna look at it and go, well, I'm a
- 31:17Speaker 2: little bit concerned about that, and we just have to
- 31:19Speaker 2: remember just keep piecing it together. Here. If you're West Virginia.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Busting down the box from last night, Brennan Laureate had
- 31:28Speaker 1: himself a really impressive game. You think about this, He
- 31:32Speaker 1: finishes up with twelve points, He has nine rebounds, four assists,
- 31:41Speaker 1: and he blocks am I right, five shots correct, five
- 31:45Speaker 1: shots blocks, five.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Shots sealed, twelve nine to five four box score. You
- 31:50Speaker 2: don't see that very often.
- 31:51Speaker 1: So like really impressed by him. And right now he's
- 31:54Speaker 1: having to do more than his normal share around the
- 31:57Speaker 1: glass because of the lack of size. And then, as
- 32:00Speaker 1: you said, the honor huff Experience friend of the program, right,
- 32:04Speaker 1: we had him on our favorites, Yeah, one of our favorites.
- 32:06Speaker 1: He goes for twenty three. The three point shooting. You
- 32:10Speaker 1: can just see that it's there. He's got four last night,
- 32:13Speaker 1: so that gives him seven through the first two games.
- 32:17Speaker 1: But one of the things that like brings a sense
- 32:20Speaker 1: of comfort to you is when the young man goes
- 32:22Speaker 1: to the foul line and late game go like, I'm
- 32:24Speaker 1: glad he's at that line because he doesn't touch the rim.
- 32:27Speaker 1: He went nine to ten last night and was huge
- 32:31Speaker 1: in the game, and then you had this great balance
- 32:33Speaker 1: right had you had tracing eagle staff. He was like
- 32:38Speaker 1: you know, like you know those fire starters where you go,
- 32:41Speaker 1: like you click that thing and then a little spark
- 32:43Speaker 1: comes out and then like the fire will come, but
- 32:46Speaker 1: you got to click it a couple of times like
- 32:47Speaker 1: last night, like he hit his trigger like three times
- 32:51Speaker 1: and like the flame came out just like just a
- 32:53Speaker 1: really sporadic second and then it came back in. But
- 32:57Speaker 1: you saw that it's all that ability that he has
- 33:04Speaker 1: to score the ball. They call him a volume scorer,
- 33:07Speaker 1: and you just saw being a hit that big three
- 33:10Speaker 1: first half banged on his chest. Okay, let's go. They're
- 33:13Speaker 1: going to be more of those nights than not those nights.
- 33:17Speaker 1: And then that was encouraging because he did not have
- 33:20Speaker 1: a great performance.
- 33:21Speaker 2: Game one, very encouraging. He's coming along. I think what
- 33:24Speaker 2: you always have to remember about Trey is he's a
- 33:27Speaker 2: guy that came from a program that asked him to
- 33:29Speaker 2: shoot it very nearly every time he came down the floor.
- 33:32Speaker 2: One of the highest usage rate guys in the country
- 33:35Speaker 2: at North Dakota. So it's taking him a little bit
- 33:37Speaker 2: and it's going to take him a little bit. Number one,
- 33:40Speaker 2: to figure out what his role is in this offense.
- 33:42Speaker 2: He's playing with more scores now than he ever has,
- 33:46Speaker 2: so he doesn't have to carry the load. How does
- 33:48Speaker 2: he fit within that framework. He's working on that. And
- 33:50Speaker 2: number two, I'm going to continue to harp on this.
- 33:53Speaker 2: That's the second game in a row for a guy
- 33:55Speaker 2: that wasn't asked to have to play a lot of
- 33:57Speaker 2: lockdown defense previously. He was asked to get in there
- 34:00Speaker 2: and score. He has done a nice job defensively. He
- 34:03Speaker 2: has totally transformed his game. And this is one of
- 34:06Speaker 2: the hardest workers on this team. He's relentless in the gym.
- 34:10Speaker 2: He's relentless in trying to understand what these defensive concepts are.
- 34:13Speaker 2: And you get a guy that and I bang on
- 34:15Speaker 2: plus minus occasionally it doesn't always tell the full story.
- 34:18Speaker 2: But that's a guy in Trayson last night that had
- 34:19Speaker 2: your second best plus minus behind Jasper Floyd. And I
- 34:23Speaker 2: think both of those, Tony, those are what I say
- 34:25Speaker 2: a lot. Those stats backed up what you saw on
- 34:27Speaker 2: the floor. When Jasper's in the game, you can tell
- 34:29Speaker 2: that's a veteran dude that's played one hundred plus games
- 34:32Speaker 2: of college basketball. The thing just feels under control. I
- 34:35Speaker 2: felt like that with Tracon last night doing some other things.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Got just six rebounds last night in addition to playing
- 34:41Speaker 2: defense two offensive rebounds. Yeah, so Trey's doing a bunch
- 34:44Speaker 2: of stuff right now and adapting to what he's being
- 34:47Speaker 2: asked to do on the defensive end. I think it's
- 34:50Speaker 2: a game that will see his offense grow as he
- 34:53Speaker 2: continues to get more comfortable and plays more. They'll be
- 34:56Speaker 2: less thinking on the defensive end and you're going to
- 34:58Speaker 2: continue to unlock him offensively. I'm with you. I thought
- 35:00Speaker 2: that was a nice second game for Trace and Eagle staff.
- 35:04Speaker 2: Let's do a couple more of these. While we're on
- 35:05Speaker 2: individual players for a second, I want to jump down
- 35:07Speaker 2: to Moe Ugasouk. That's a guy that brought that was
- 35:10Speaker 2: brought in, namely as a shooter. He was forty percent
- 35:13Speaker 2: from three last year at South Carolina. The one guy
- 35:15Speaker 2: that comes in with power five experience, had done it
- 35:17Speaker 2: in multiple games, making more than three threes at South Carolina,
- 35:21Speaker 2: so brought in as a shooter. I say Moe was
- 35:24Speaker 2: brought in as a shooter. He's a really good three
- 35:26Speaker 2: point shooter. Correct had zero three point attempts last night
- 35:29Speaker 2: and yet affected that game. It's a guy that had
- 35:32Speaker 2: five rebounds, including two offensive, and does a great job
- 35:35Speaker 2: playing defense. And sometimes you don't know what you have
- 35:38Speaker 2: until you get on the floor, and that's what Moe
- 35:41Speaker 2: has been for this team. Brought him in for a
- 35:43Speaker 2: specific purpose, and yet he has turned out to be
- 35:46Speaker 2: a guy really high basketball IQ has quickly understood what
- 35:50Speaker 2: this staff is trying to get this team to do
- 35:52Speaker 2: defensively and has made himself playable and valuable in areas
- 35:56Speaker 2: other than shooting. You haven't even unlocked his three point
- 35:59Speaker 2: game yet, and he's making contributions to this team he
- 36:02Speaker 2: gets he should get some credit for a game last
- 36:04Speaker 2: night that won't stand out to the general public, But
- 36:07Speaker 2: that was a really good game from Mougasuk.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Yeah, and be quite honest with you as you say that,
- 36:12Speaker 1: there wasn't anyone that had a stinker last night. There
- 36:15Speaker 1: was not. I mean, how encouraged are you by DJ
- 36:17Speaker 1: Thomas Barry. Here's a guy that signed with Ross. He
- 36:20Speaker 1: was six seven now he's up to six', nine big strong.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Body he gets you ten, points four of eight from
- 36:26Speaker 1: the field. Overall second half for him last night he
- 36:31Speaker 1: goes three of three from the, field made big. Plays
- 36:36Speaker 1: and so he's just a baby and he's growing. Up
- 36:39Speaker 1: do Big harlan, Next, YEAH i was gonna Do. Harlan
- 36:41Speaker 1: harlan did not get a, statistically did not get a
- 36:44Speaker 1: shot in the opener Against Mount Saint. Mary's five of
- 36:47Speaker 1: seven last, night twelve points and he hits two out
- 36:51Speaker 1: of four at the foul line and also corralled six.
- 36:54Speaker 1: Rebounds and, again he's kind of like the only big
- 36:57Speaker 1: That West virginia technically has out there right. Now so
- 37:01Speaker 1: that was. Encouraging and you Saw Jasper floyd who had
- 37:05Speaker 1: the big game twenty five in the. Opener he was
- 37:09Speaker 1: settled in last, night very comfortable to distribute four, assists five,
- 37:13Speaker 1: rebounds scored a couple of. Points but he played his
- 37:16Speaker 1: role and there WAS i thought last night a good
- 37:18Speaker 1: example that he truly will do whatever it needs needs
- 37:23Speaker 1: to be done on that particular.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Night so you talk About, Jasper, yes, agree, agree AND
- 37:28Speaker 2: i do think that's. ENCOURAGING i, mean if you're going
- 37:30Speaker 2: to stick to the shooters Like Mount Saint mary's did
- 37:33Speaker 2: and open up that, lane Then jasper has the ability
- 37:36Speaker 2: to get you points and scores you saw in game.
- 37:37Speaker 2: One if that's going to close off a little, bit
- 37:40Speaker 2: or they're going to mix up what they're doing, defensively
- 37:42Speaker 2: you're going to leave shooters out there allowed on a
- 37:44Speaker 2: huff to get going in the second. Half here's another
- 37:47Speaker 2: Number i'll give. You i'll reference this a lot this
- 37:50Speaker 2: season BECAUSE i think it's a really interesting part of
- 37:53Speaker 2: The Ross hodge offense and the way they do. Things
- 37:56Speaker 2: you've seen it now over two. Games they are very deliberate,
- 37:59Speaker 2: offensively we'll push it when it's. There had to what
- 38:03Speaker 2: nineteen fast break points in the first, game which puts
- 38:05Speaker 2: you in the eighty seven. Percentile nationally after one. Game
- 38:08Speaker 2: but when it's not, there totally content coming, up working,
- 38:12Speaker 2: offense exploiting. Mismatches if you got somebody down in the,
- 38:15Speaker 2: post that, switch you see the pass down in and
- 38:17Speaker 2: you try and back somebody down. In we Saw Jasper
- 38:20Speaker 2: floyd do that a few. Times but it doesn't mean
- 38:22Speaker 2: the offense is not. Good it's just slower and it's
- 38:26Speaker 2: deliberate and it's limiting possessions for the other team when
- 38:30Speaker 2: they get the ball. Back and here's the stat That
- 38:32Speaker 2: i'm going to reference a lot this. Season it's points per.
- 38:34Speaker 2: Possession so the total Points West virginia, scores you're not
- 38:39Speaker 2: going to see a lot of those gaudy eighty six
- 38:42Speaker 2: ninety four point games that some teams are putting up here.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Early but what you should look at is these points per.
- 38:47Speaker 2: Possession and last Night West virginia had another good. One
- 38:50Speaker 2: it was over one point possession Against Mount Saint Morris.
- 38:55Speaker 2: Mary's WHAT i, Say, Morris Mount Saint, Mary's morris Ugusson.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Mary Most Saint. Mary's, No i'd just do.
- 39:06Speaker 2: That Saint mary's might start calling. That. Now that's pretty.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Good more than, so that was a game when you
- 39:13Speaker 2: walked away going what what did everybody say coming out
- 39:15Speaker 2: of the first? Game what did you hear more than anything?
- 39:17Speaker 2: Else you gotta make some, Shots you gotta make. Sense
- 39:19Speaker 2: you were more than one point per. Possession i'll put
- 39:21Speaker 2: that in context in just a second last night one
- 39:24Speaker 2: point one points per, possession including one point two in
- 39:27Speaker 2: the second. Half so here's your. Context last year's nation's
- 39:30Speaker 2: leader in points per possession just a hair under one point.
- 39:35Speaker 2: One so those are two really good offensively efficient games
- 39:40Speaker 2: for a team that, maybe if you're watching that at
- 39:42Speaker 2: times you felt, like was this offense? Okay, yeah it was,
- 39:45Speaker 2: okay it was doing exactly what it was supposed, to
- 39:47Speaker 2: and you saw what happens to teams when you're down
- 39:51Speaker 2: going into the final ten minutes of the second, half
- 39:53Speaker 2: that becomes really difficult Because West virginia just squeezes. You
- 39:57Speaker 2: it puts so much more importance and pressure on the
- 40:00Speaker 2: other team per possession because you're just not going to
- 40:02Speaker 2: get many of. Them. Right it's almost it's almost service
- 40:05Speaker 2: academy and service academy football asque that you better be
- 40:09Speaker 2: ultra efficient Against West virginia because you're just not going
- 40:12Speaker 2: to get the ball as. Often SO i think that
- 40:14Speaker 2: has showed itself in the first two. Games where if
- 40:17Speaker 2: you're just watching you may not think the offense was super,
- 40:19Speaker 2: good it really has. Been it's been very good for
- 40:21Speaker 2: the first two.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Games one more note on individual. Players Emir. Jenkins if
- 40:26Speaker 1: you look at his line last, night he played nine.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Minutes he didn't. Score you, go, ok didn't. It he
- 40:30Speaker 1: had one sequence defensively against THEIR Dj smith that he
- 40:36Speaker 1: Was you could just see his, athleticism his. Tenacity it
- 40:41Speaker 1: was kind of a microcosm of how he's going to,
- 40:44Speaker 1: play you. DON'T i, mean he's a. Dog you can get.
- 40:47Speaker 2: That he got a little stuff to.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Him he got some stuff to. Him and so when
- 40:49Speaker 1: he GOT Dj smith in there and pinned him up
- 40:51Speaker 1: against the sideline and just like perfect coaching execution of
- 40:55Speaker 1: how how they treat how they trained themselves to do
- 40:58Speaker 1: that and put your hands in that right spot and
- 41:01Speaker 1: be just a. Nuisance he's got a little something to.
- 41:04Speaker 1: Him he'll have some.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Games he will have some, games and, boy he's had
- 41:06Speaker 2: a couple passes in each game that make you go.
- 41:09Speaker 2: WHY i, MEAN i THINK i jumped all over on
- 41:10Speaker 2: your play by play call BECAUSE i THINK i said
- 41:12Speaker 2: wow as soon as he dished one of those off
- 41:14Speaker 2: last night and we left probably a good forty minutes
- 41:18Speaker 2: after the game ended last. Night you know who was
- 41:21Speaker 2: getting a workout in after the, Game.
- 41:22Speaker 1: Truck bryant was Not.
- 41:24Speaker 2: Truck it Wasn't, truck it Was Amir. Jenkins, yeah gett
- 41:27Speaker 2: a little post game work out of. It he gonna be
- 41:29Speaker 2: a good.
- 41:29Speaker 1: One Jaydan forsyth was out there.
- 41:30Speaker 2: Too jaden's done at both, things getting shots, up getting
- 41:32Speaker 2: some extra shots, up staying, ready, sure staying. Ready he's
- 41:35Speaker 2: a Good jade's a guy we haven't seen, yet But
- 41:37Speaker 2: ross expected to get him in here in these first
- 41:39Speaker 2: few games as we're waiting for Chance more to come.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Back m. H.
- 41:44Speaker 1: Yeah so Again Sunday lehigh Here West virginia will once
- 41:50Speaker 1: again get a good run in and then they'll be
- 41:52Speaker 1: off Until thursday When pitt comes into The Hope. Coliseum
- 41:58Speaker 1: so that's what we got. Shaken, yeah SO I i'm
- 42:02Speaker 1: kind Of i'm.
- 42:02Speaker 2: Sorry one last thing On campbell before we Leave. Campbell
- 42:05Speaker 2: nice to See Joe yesafu really nice former mountaineer back
- 42:09Speaker 2: as a full time assistant On. Kansas that's a great
- 42:11Speaker 2: start to his career one year after being done with his.
- 42:14Speaker 2: ELIGIBILITY i talked to him before the. Game we had
- 42:16Speaker 2: him on Sports line On thursday. Night it was a fun.
- 42:18Speaker 2: Interview if you get a chance to go back and
- 42:19Speaker 2: listen to podcast version if you want to hear From.
- 42:22Speaker 2: Joe BUT i went and talked to him before the
- 42:23Speaker 2: game town AGAIN i. SAID i, said, heyes it feel
- 42:26Speaker 2: weird being back in. Here and he kind of looked.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Around he, goes not not, REALLY i feel LIKE i
- 42:31Speaker 2: was just here two months. Ago that's.
- 42:33Speaker 1: True so you might wonder how did he elevate so,
- 42:37Speaker 1: far so, fast so. Quickly John, andershek the new coach
- 42:41Speaker 1: At campbell a couple of seasons, ago was At Washington. State,
- 42:46Speaker 1: Yes afu was a player At Washington. State suffered a
- 42:49Speaker 1: bad hip injury and didn't play that. Season but that's
- 42:52Speaker 1: how the two got to know each. Other and so
- 42:54Speaker 1: When andersk gets that job At campbell AND i Told,
- 42:57Speaker 1: JOE i, Said, joe do you REALIZE i mean you
- 42:59Speaker 1: skipped a by normally four. Years you, know those grad
- 43:03Speaker 1: assistants go like grad assistant video, coordinator assistant to the
- 43:08Speaker 1: video coordinator's, friend and it takes like normally three to
- 43:12Speaker 1: four just to get a seat, yeah and here he.
- 43:14Speaker 1: Is he's got chair at a.
- 43:15Speaker 2: D one spot AND i think it speaks. Well and
- 43:18Speaker 2: again we know this because we got to be Around
- 43:20Speaker 2: joe for a. Year what a wonderful, Personality. Smiley he's
- 43:25Speaker 2: just around it a. Lot and he was a guy
- 43:26Speaker 2: that obviously made a heck of an impression for a
- 43:29Speaker 2: year in which you mentioned he didn't even. PLAY i
- 43:32Speaker 2: know that's the kind of impression he.
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- 44:25Speaker 1: first reported on this. Program we're getting ready to do
- 44:29Speaker 1: some live. EVENTS i was attacked unfairly WHEN i was
- 44:36Speaker 1: the first to report. This brad gets upset Because i'm
- 44:39Speaker 1: ahead of the gang on this. Stuff don't get the
- 44:44Speaker 1: respect That i'm doing Because i'm a futurist knowing what's
- 44:47Speaker 1: happening going. Forward BUT i do want to say this
- 44:51Speaker 1: a couple of. Reminders the football game starting. Tonight the
- 44:56Speaker 1: food court is going to be, operational but there's going
- 45:01Speaker 1: to be different people that are running. It it's The
- 45:03Speaker 1: Live Like brent, team which is a great group raising cancer.
- 45:07Speaker 1: Dollars they're going to have our spot next To Daniel's
- 45:09Speaker 1: men's store and they will be There friday afternoon and
- 45:13Speaker 1: they will be There saturday before the. Game Revkev's barbecue
- 45:18Speaker 1: will be. There and guess what he's got Revkev chili
- 45:21Speaker 1: tonight he makes that with his. Brisket Revkev chili with
- 45:26Speaker 1: brisket in there, tonight weather permitting live music from five
- 45:31Speaker 1: until seven O'clock, eastern there will not be connection three oh,
- 45:35Speaker 1: four but there will be. Libations Also, Saturday revkev will
- 45:40Speaker 1: be there and because it's a morning, game probably going
- 45:44Speaker 1: to get a good rush early, on and we all
- 45:47Speaker 1: ask you to encourage and support live Like. Brent, also
- 45:52Speaker 1: as first reported on this, program getting ready for A charleston.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Event going to have an announcement coming Up, sunday an
- 46:02Speaker 1: official announcement coming Up, sunday and exact details of That
- 46:08Speaker 1: saturday down In, Charleston South, carolina between the two basketball,
- 46:12Speaker 1: games we're gonna have an.
- 46:13Speaker 2: EVENT i, mean hopefully it's the same details you've already.
- 46:17Speaker 1: Released they're gonna be sending fishing boats out into the
- 46:20Speaker 1: waters just to bring in enough stuff for us because
- 46:22Speaker 1: we're gonna eat some. Fish we're gonna have a big
- 46:24Speaker 1: time alumni chapter The saturday between the two games down In,
- 46:30Speaker 1: Charleston South, carolina the weekend Before. Thanksgiving we'll also post
- 46:34Speaker 1: it on our three guys social media sites as. Well
- 46:41Speaker 1: and That Charleston West virginia, event we're gonna do something.
- 46:44Speaker 1: There we're big In.
- 46:47Speaker 2: Charleston let's get through The, Charleston South carolina, event then
- 46:49Speaker 2: you can talk about you're going.
- 46:50Speaker 1: To have an event the night before The Wake forest
- 46:52Speaker 1: game Down, Charleston West. Virginia by the, way you know
- 46:54Speaker 1: they got.
- 46:55Speaker 2: New, seats saw that saw that those would be.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Nice, JEEZ i don't know the hurry why they needed
- 47:00Speaker 1: to get new. Seats those those ones they had in
- 47:02Speaker 1: there were just they were super weren't.
- 47:04Speaker 2: They glad they got that. Done that'll be.
- 47:05Speaker 1: Awesome do you think those seats got some those are
- 47:08Speaker 1: the original, seats.
- 47:09Speaker 2: They got, some they got some. Use cost per use
- 47:12Speaker 2: was down a lot. Already those new ones will be, nice,
- 47:16Speaker 2: colt nice and. Clean they're, black, yeah like a. GREAT
- 47:21Speaker 2: i think they're maybe an anthracite, there.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Yeah anthracite, ish, yeah very. Nice time for textual healing
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- 47:42Speaker 1: The Mountaineer munch is coming up for The christmas season
- 47:45Speaker 1: and it'll be up there. Soon plus all of our other,
- 47:48Speaker 1: stuff plus getting ready for that spring release of the olive.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Oil that's gonna be.
- 47:52Speaker 2: Nice what we don't have olive oil it's. Coming you
- 47:56Speaker 2: did an olive oil? Deal, yeah For god's, sakes.
- 48:00Speaker 1: Like really good olive, oil organic olive oil From, italy From.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Calabria it's gonna be, nice know the, farmer know the
- 48:11Speaker 1: people that raise. Them those trees are, old you. Know
- 48:13Speaker 1: old olive trees are some of the oldest trees in the.
- 48:16Speaker 1: World all, right here we.
- 48:19Speaker 2: Go we're gonna have our own olive.
- 48:20Speaker 1: Oil, yeah be available. Here don't get me started on olive,
- 48:26Speaker 1: oil because it's the Whole i'll open up that. Can
- 48:28Speaker 1: just like The San marzano. Tomatoes i've told you The
- 48:31Speaker 1: San marizona tomatoes, story, Right they're just they're not truly
- 48:35Speaker 1: grown in that specific volcanic. Region olive, oil if you
- 48:39Speaker 1: ever look at olive, oil they bring it in like
- 48:42Speaker 1: all these different. Countries they just mix it all. Together
- 48:44Speaker 1: like you don't need mixed. Oil you need a good
- 48:47Speaker 1: oil from one. Place and the oil that we're gonna,
- 48:51Speaker 1: sell they're gonna know where it came. From you can
- 48:53Speaker 1: look at you can look at the location where it's.
- 48:58Speaker 1: Produced one Source. Texter how about this our start to the.
- 49:05Speaker 1: Day these are mountaineer folks coming in for a basketball.
- 49:09Speaker 1: Game this is Doctor robert And Luanne. Waterson they hit
- 49:15Speaker 1: The Tutor's Biscuit world out there On University, Avenue Best
- 49:19Speaker 1: morgantown breakfast well known there they are having their pregame
- 49:23Speaker 1: meal right and then after he was so fired. Up
- 49:26Speaker 1: when he walked out of, there he was like a man.
- 49:28Speaker 1: Possessed he raised his arms to The Tutor's Biscuit. World
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- 49:46Speaker 1: will make it a special. Day call ahead and pick it.
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- 49:52Speaker 1: are the.
- 49:53Speaker 2: Best robert and lewayn, there they're the absolute. Best talk
- 49:55Speaker 2: to him before the game a little. Bit he, said
- 49:57Speaker 2: thanks for all The tutors. Mentions that's what got. There
- 50:00Speaker 2: they live out of. Town they were in town for the.
- 50:02Speaker 2: Game big basketball, guy big basketball stuff. Too, yeah big basketball,
- 50:06Speaker 2: guy but they. Were they were. THRILLED a plus rating
- 50:09Speaker 2: they Gave. Tutors, sure, WELL.
- 50:10Speaker 1: I don't know why you, wouldn't so check it Out
- 50:11Speaker 1: Tutor's Biscuit. World start your day the homemade way that catering's.
- 50:14Speaker 1: Getting Big texter, SAYS i did not realize THAT i
- 50:19Speaker 1: was co playing nineteen Eighties donneeling until my office mates
- 50:23Speaker 1: pointed it out a Perfect halloween outfit for an upset.
- 50:26Speaker 1: Weekend by, golly so there he he dressed. Up he Went,
- 50:30Speaker 1: donneelon he went old school don niel in there for
- 50:32Speaker 1: A halloween. COSTUME i Mean don would wear the sweatshirt
- 50:36Speaker 1: occasionally had the collar out. Right it's. Credential you're nicely, done,
- 50:43Speaker 1: texter Says jacob, here longtime, listener first time. TEXTER a
- 50:47Speaker 1: quick obvious. OBSERVATION a mountaineer wind always puts a smile
- 50:52Speaker 1: on your face all the way From Grand, cayman. Cheers
- 50:56Speaker 1: eight month Old miles was even a happy camper and
- 50:59Speaker 1: supporting HIS wvu gear on Seven Mile. Beach that's, all, oh,
- 51:04Speaker 1: cutie there's A i love when little kids wear they're
- 51:07Speaker 1: diaper and just A t. Shirt they get in that
- 51:10Speaker 1: water and then that thing expands and it looks it's
- 51:13Speaker 1: a look like cl.
- 51:14Speaker 2: Cutie there's worse places you could be Than Grand.
- 51:16Speaker 1: Cayman, yeah, uh, Texter hello logan From. Mannington brad brought
- 51:22Speaker 1: up a good point that we don't understand pass interference.
- 51:26Speaker 1: Anymore and NOW i still don't understand what's unnecessary roughness
- 51:30Speaker 1: with The Scottie fox situation.
- 51:33Speaker 2: AND ddt called. It that's a. Former that's a wrestling
- 51:36Speaker 2: reference there where they picked fox. Up, yeah slammed in the,
- 51:39Speaker 2: ground but no.
- 51:40Speaker 1: Call he, ADDS i might want to let the listeners
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- 52:18Speaker 1: ted From. Colorado all things being, equal the big takeaway
- 52:21Speaker 1: from the first basketball game was a lack of. REBOUNDING
- 52:24Speaker 1: i think the shooting issues will work themselves. Out rebounding a, Concern, YEAH,
- 52:29Speaker 1: tba until you get those other two young men, There, YEAH, Tba.
- 52:35Speaker 2: Because remember that first game skewed those. Results you missed
- 52:37Speaker 2: that many free. Throws there's gonna be some easy rebounding.
- 52:40Speaker 2: OPPORTUNITIES i mentioned going into last night's. Game West virginia
- 52:43Speaker 2: was still top eighty in defensive rebounding percentage after that first,
- 52:47Speaker 2: game so that number was skewed a little. Bit so
- 52:49Speaker 2: something to keep an eye, on but don't don't panic just.
- 52:51Speaker 2: Yet on that next.
- 52:52Speaker 1: Up have you seen this Magazinees have you seen this
- 52:55Speaker 1: magazine cover? Anywhere it's Called Hodge. Baker you've seen.
- 53:01Speaker 2: THAT i.
- 53:01Speaker 1: Did look at Ross Boss ren's looking. Sweet you think
- 53:06Speaker 1: his hair ever looked like? That? No too, late me, Neither.
- 53:10Speaker 1: Texter this guy found this little item when he was cleaning,
- 53:15Speaker 1: up getting ready for the fall season or. WHATEVER i
- 53:18Speaker 1: wanted to share. This this is my ticket from The
- 53:20Speaker 1: Sugar bowl When West virginia played In. Atlanta me and
- 53:23Speaker 1: my grandpa went to the, game sat in a sea
- 53:25Speaker 1: of red. BULLDOGS i was eleven years, old cheering like.
- 53:28Speaker 1: Crazy what a. Game Something i'll keep for the rest
- 53:30Speaker 1: of my. Life look forward to watching us win big
- 53:32Speaker 1: games With richie and Go. Mountaineers and so that team's
- 53:35Speaker 1: being honored this. Weekend the Five mountaineers will be honored
- 53:42Speaker 1: And Stevie slayton will be recognized as his move to
- 53:47Speaker 1: The College Football hall Of fame is coming. Up and
- 53:50Speaker 1: the gentleman that wrote that in there, says Does nokia
- 53:54Speaker 1: still even exist? Anymore remember as The nokia sugar bus
- 53:58Speaker 1: AND i looked at it. Up yes it does. Exist
- 54:02Speaker 1: it has. Evolved is now two different, entities the Original
- 54:06Speaker 1: finnish company At Finnish, Company No Kia, corporation which focuses
- 54:11Speaker 1: on telcom an H Md, global a separate company that
- 54:16Speaker 1: licenses The nokia brand to make and sell. Phones so
- 54:20Speaker 1: they're over there In, Finland So Moe yugasouk And Eddie
- 54:23Speaker 1: vestern and probably carry Around nokias when they're.
- 54:26Speaker 2: Home turning into this, year always At finland.
- 54:29Speaker 1: Connection three current Athletes, finland three current athletes At West
- 54:34Speaker 1: virginia are currently well.
- 54:35Speaker 2: And plus you're breaking down No kia based In. Finland
- 54:38Speaker 2: didn't see that coming on, today SO i have to.
- 54:39Speaker 1: Ask those guys if they're familiar with. That texter asked this,
- 54:42Speaker 1: question what is Coach hodge's demeanor like on the? COURT
- 54:45Speaker 1: i can't tell from THE tv. Broadcast is he a
- 54:48Speaker 1: fiery guy or pretty laid back on the? Court. Fiery
- 54:53Speaker 1: he he so my thought early on very micro.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Wavish he's up, fast heats up.
- 55:00Speaker 1: Really really heats up really really, Fast like as soon
- 55:03Speaker 1: as you touch that, wick it. Goes will not will
- 55:09Speaker 1: not chirp at, referees will not chirp at the. Referees
- 55:16Speaker 1: i'd say ninety five percent of the.
- 55:18Speaker 2: Time, yeah he's gonna he'll save. It he'll give you a.
- 55:20Speaker 1: Couple, yeah he's gonna let them do their gig and
- 55:23Speaker 1: UNTIL i think what he tries to do is play catch.
- 55:25Speaker 1: Them you know what that. Is you know what that. Is,
- 55:29Speaker 1: yeah it's a good coach's. Ploy you catch them when
- 55:32Speaker 1: they make a mistake and they know they made a,
- 55:33Speaker 1: mistake so he. ENGAGES i think when they know they
- 55:37Speaker 1: screwed one up and now, there then you have them
- 55:41Speaker 1: at their you got their, mercy, right they're just Like
- 55:44Speaker 1: so that's when he. Does but he like first, game
- 55:48Speaker 1: he got hot and did a double did a double
- 55:52Speaker 1: palm slap on the scorer's. Table. Huh may have woken
- 55:55Speaker 1: a few people up right in front of. Us, yeah
- 55:56Speaker 1: may have woken a few people. Up and then last
- 55:59Speaker 1: night he had a question or. Two but, again it's
- 56:02Speaker 1: not an ongoing chirp. FEST i think he just lets
- 56:05Speaker 1: them do their, thing but when he plays catch, them
- 56:07Speaker 1: he'll catch you and then he'll try to get a
- 56:08Speaker 1: call off of.
- 56:09Speaker 2: That if you were listening to the radio broadcast last,
- 56:11Speaker 2: night a couple of times you could hear some of his. Instructions,
- 56:14Speaker 2: yea when he got cranked up.
- 56:15Speaker 1: There yeah no aps no, no, no no, no no curse.
- 56:19Speaker 2: No BUT i did find it. Interesting there was one
- 56:21Speaker 2: time we turned to the assistance, again the guys that
- 56:23Speaker 2: do the, scout and he's talking defensively to the, guys
- 56:25Speaker 2: and he just, said we need to do something different
- 56:27Speaker 2: in the. Post they kept heading it into butka in
- 56:29Speaker 2: there and had to switch up in the, post which
- 56:31Speaker 2: western he.
- 56:31Speaker 1: Did mike From Saint albans longtime, listener first text went
- 56:37Speaker 1: to the hoop game. Tonight very, excited BUT i think
- 56:41Speaker 1: this team can turn Into with this being the fourth
- 56:45Speaker 1: actual game that they have, played you can see the
- 56:47Speaker 1: talent is, there but they haven't quite jeled good, defense
- 56:50Speaker 1: offense struggled a, bit rebounding will get. Better love the
- 56:53Speaker 1: entire starting, lineup Especially Honor floyd And. Looyant excited about
- 56:57Speaker 1: the two. FRESHMEN i think That jenkins is going to
- 57:01Speaker 1: be if he stays a defensive monster Like Javon. Carter,
- 57:06Speaker 1: yeah that's rarified. HERE i keep trying to figure out
- 57:09Speaker 1: Who thomas reminds me Of mountaineer. TEAMS i think It's Daryl.
- 57:12Speaker 1: Prue so he went old school. Eighties when old school
- 57:16Speaker 1: nineteen eighties there athletic long seems to be consistent around the.
- 57:19Speaker 1: ROOM i hope they're there for their entire. Careers, YEAH
- 57:24Speaker 1: i think that's be. Great, also my son's going to
- 57:27Speaker 1: sing at the food Court friday evening thanks To Homeless
- 57:31Speaker 1: day for the. Opportunity So Homeless day's just booking people
- 57:34Speaker 1: left and.
- 57:34Speaker 2: Right but he's basically a concert promoter at this, point
- 57:37Speaker 2: just books.
- 57:37Speaker 1: People Doctor jeff And charleston Closes Textual Healing today with
- 57:44Speaker 1: this logic leads to. Fear if it's this difficult to
- 57:51Speaker 1: defeat two mid major, schools it will be extremely difficult
- 57:55Speaker 1: to Beat big twelve. Teams thus we fear that we
- 57:59Speaker 1: will lose majority of Our big twelve. Games signed By
- 58:02Speaker 1: Doctor jeff And, charleston a.
- 58:04Speaker 2: Lot of hoops. Left first game wasn't difficult one by?
- 58:07Speaker 1: Sixteen Think Doctor, jeff what's he telling? Us just don't apply,
- 58:13Speaker 1: logic is what he's.
- 58:14Speaker 2: Saying oh is that what he's?
- 58:16Speaker 1: SAYING i think it is right like live like if
- 58:18Speaker 1: you just look at it, logically you could make assumptions.
- 58:21Speaker 2: There, AH i see what you're.
- 58:21Speaker 1: Saying probably what it. IS i got. You, so, yeah
- 58:25Speaker 1: we'll see, again playing a lot really. Quick we're gonna do.
- 58:28Speaker 1: Games we're gonna we're gonna get another Thre we're gonna
- 58:30Speaker 1: get another forty minutes a ball in here On, sunday
- 58:33Speaker 1: and we'll have a little bit of a better feel
- 58:36Speaker 1: coming up next. Week, Okay so scheduling, Wise.
- 58:42Speaker 2: Monday is our next.
- 58:43Speaker 1: One will we will record On monday and drop It.
- 58:49Speaker 1: Monday we'll recap football On monday and recap the basketball
- 58:54Speaker 1: game as.
- 58:54Speaker 2: Well but before you go, FURTHER i got one more
- 58:57Speaker 2: textual healing That i've. Forgot. Stop the music relates To
- 59:03Speaker 2: Joe yesafu from last. Night, yeah his roommate while he was,
- 59:07Speaker 2: here the oft mentioned second best player In Valley high
- 59:12Speaker 2: school basketball, History Jake. Hour oh, yeah you know What
- 59:15Speaker 2: jake's up to now In. Chicago BUT i talked To
- 59:19Speaker 2: john his dad here recently via. Text got a picture, There,
- 59:22Speaker 2: jake if you'd throw this At. Joe, Yes foo said
- 59:23Speaker 2: he knew about. This here's our guy rocking the. Mustache
- 59:28Speaker 2: now that's in vogue with all the current country music. Stars,
- 59:31Speaker 2: yeah my man has finished up. Now just since he left,
- 59:34Speaker 2: here he's done The Chicago triathlon and this is a
- 59:38Speaker 2: picture with his parents as he just completed The Des moines.
- 59:41Speaker 2: Marathon so he running thing lined up and ran a. Marathon,
- 59:46Speaker 2: wow pretty impressive for our, Guy Jake. Hour, yeah so
- 59:50Speaker 2: great to hear From. John still big mountaineer. Fans we
- 59:52Speaker 2: will See john In.
- 59:53Speaker 1: Ames he's going to.
- 59:54Speaker 2: Come he's right there In Des, moines so he's just
- 59:55Speaker 2: gonna take the half hour drive up and sure we'll
- 59:57Speaker 2: see him At Hilton coliseum.
- 59:58Speaker 1: There jake doing? It anything for? Employment is he just running?
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: Now it just he works out apparently all the.
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: Time was he getting into financial?
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: Service?
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: Yeah so he'll be.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: Fun so he's doing great Right, ANYWAY i said To,
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: JOE i, said do you still talk to any guys
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: he goes this? IS i thought this was interesting too
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: because it speaks to how difficult it is to build
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: a culture with all new. Guys but, then how, well
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: both of these last two versions of the mountaineers have
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: come together from a team. PERSPECTIVE i, said you talk
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: to any of the, guys you see. Anybody we Saw
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: toby over the summer a. Lot he, Goes, oh, yeah
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: talked almost, everybody every one of. Them every couple. Days
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: we're texting around with each. Other it's gonna ask him About.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: JAKE i, said you see what your Boy. Jason he, Goes, oh,
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: YEAH i. KNOW i got the. Picture so they're all
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: still really connected even though many of them spent just
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: one year here In.
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: Morgantown, yeah, awesome all, right we're. Out that's a good.
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